About Marylou
Marylou Biasotto is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. She also supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, sleep, anger, self-esteem, career shifts, and compassion fatigue. Marylou names LGBT issues and bipolar concerns among the areas she addresses.
She brings 28 years of experience across independent practice, community mental health, correctional settings, and international social work. That range informs a practical approach to everyday problems and complex life events.
Background and approach
Marylou adapts conversations and plans to each person’s situation rather than offering one-size-fits-all advice. Her work blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with mindfulness practices. She may incorporate hypnotherapy techniques when they fit a person’s goals.
Solution-focused methods also guide shorter-term goals and steps forward. Sessions are aimed at clear, achievable tasks - changing unhelpful thoughts, building coping skills, and identifying values that guide choices. She also helps people manage long-term health concerns such as cancer, chronic pain, or aging-related issues.
Topics like immigration stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, or first responder strain are within her focus areas. Marylou emphasizes respectful, compassionate engagement. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort where the person’s preferences shape the plan.
Her tone is practical and supportive, with attention to real-life constraints and schedules. Many clients use messaging between sessions as a supplement, not as the main mode of therapy. Marylou encourages people to take small, steady steps and to reevaluate plans as life changes occur.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions that align with what matters to them. It focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to meaningful steps forward, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises and experiments to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills, which suits conditions like anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns.
Marylou approaches choosing a method as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That way the plan reflects both what helps and what a person feels comfortable practicing.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy days and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is needed without video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter response fits someone's schedule. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to fit therapy into a real-life routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English